HDRC achievements

Below are some of the things that HDRC Southampton have achieved so far.

We have built a solid structure to guide our work and ensure accountability:

Established a dedicated Leadership Team
Formed a Steering Group to provide strategic direction
Set up a Public Involvement and Community Engagement to champion community voices
Developing our Research Governance Framework to underpin our activities

We have developed key plans and tools needed to deliver meaningful change:

Created a comprehensive communications plan to support effective engagement
Developed a Culture Change Plan to support long-term transformation
Completed a Learning Needs Analysis to identify development priorities
Designed a Public Involvement and Community Engagement Plan to strengthen involvement, inclusion, and engagement
Building our Data Warehouse to centralise data and enable linkages

We are connecting people, ideas and communities:

Created an Internal SharePoint to share resources
Partnership Forum hosted to strengthen relationships and foster joint working
Delivered a Priority Setting Event in Southampton to identify local priority issues
Actively involved young people to ensure their voices and priorities are heard
Developed a transparent Priority Setting Methodology

We are turning our activities into action and building the evidence base needed for better decisions on the building blocks of health:

Internal Support Service to support staff in service evaluation and evidence use
Conducted a series of Evidence Reviews
Developing an Open Access Evidence Repository to enable shared learning and provide easy access to high-quality evidence.
Fly-tipping chalk stencilling intervention launched testing community-led solutions
Next gen researchers launched to empower young people to become researchers
Developed an Evaluation Framework to our measure progress and impact